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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: /var/log/lastlog ?
Date: 19 Feb 1994 16:07:06 +1030
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au Public Access UNIX +61-8-3736006
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In article <CL60rF.53G@jester.GUN.de>, Michael Gerhards (michael@jester.GUN.de) wrote:
> In article <1994Feb11.235107.16781@emba.uvm.edu> , Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > The `lastlog' file is used by
> > `login' to print the message ``Last logged in Fri 1 Apr 00:00:00 1994
> > from grimble.pritz.org''.
> > You can certainly truncate the file if you ant, but it should never
> > contain more than one record per user on the system, and therefore
> > shouldn't require truncation.
> Hm, then something is wrong with it. My /var/adm/lastlog was ~ 960 KB
> big. And my system has ~ 10 users !
Mine's about 917k long with 174 users.
Do you think your file could be full of holes, and not really using that
much disk space?
- mark
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